"In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival."
-Stanislav Grof
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"Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.“
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